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if you angle for Trouts in a muddy Water 

 with Running Line, you need only izktErand- 

 lings ^ Gilt- 1 ails y i'ag-tailsy and Meadow- 

 worms with you. If the three laft are not to 

 beeafily got, then Brandlings only: And you 

 may have fome fcoured in Mofs and Water 

 only ; others, as will be directed, with 

 Ruddle, and others with Grave Earth : For 

 fometimes the Trout takes the Worm kept 

 one Way, and fometimes the other •, and that 

 all on the fame Day, and in two Hours 

 Space. 



I now come to the feveral Species oiWorms^ 

 of which there are divers Sorts : Some bred in 

 the Earth, and therefore called Earth-wonns^ or 

 Worms fimply, without any Addition •, fuch 

 are the Dew^worm^ Red-worm^ Brandlings 

 Gilt-tail^ Tag'taily and Meadow-worm : O- 

 thers arc bred on Herbs, Plants, or Trees •, as 

 Palmers or IVoolheds^ Caterpillars^ Oak-wor7n, 

 and Cabbage or Colewort-zvorin : Others on 

 Excrements, or in dead Flefn, as Gentles^ 

 TFafps^ bcc. of all which in their Order. 



Dew-izorm^ Garden-worm^ hob- worm ^ or 

 Twatchel^2St but differentNames for one and the 

 fame Worm, according tothe Dialers of feveral 

 Places. It is the principal Worm for Salmon^ 

 Chevins, Trouts ^ Barbels^ and Eels of the largeft 

 Size ; but for fmaller Fifli, though of the fame 

 Species, not fo proper. Some of them are 

 called Squirrel- 1 ails, which have a red Head, a 

 Streak down the Back, and a broad Tail; and 

 thefe are efteemed the befi:, becaufe they are 



tougheil 



